PlayStation Plus: November Preview

It’s going to be quite the month for PlayStation fans. PS4 is almost here, and it’s going to be mega awesome when I fire mine up for the first time and already have two free games to play. Yep, both Resogun, the intense and beautiful shoot ‘em up from Housemarque(the amazing people behind Super Stardust) and Contrast, a unique 2D/3D puzzler platformer with a stunning art style will be available in the Instant Game Collection for PlayStation Plus members on November 15th.

Of course, we have plenty of other great games to keep you busy until then, like Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, which is an expanded and enhanced version of Capcom’s original IP Dragon’s Dogma. There’s a new area to explore, a fast-travel system and plenty of new quests and weapons to keep you busy. Later on this month we’ll add ibb & obb, a 2-player co-op puzzler and Binary Domain, a third-person squad shooter. PS Vita owners can look forward to two amazing action-adventure titles: the classic Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and the ever-epic Soul Sacrifice.

These games will hit the Instant Game Collection at various times throughout the month, so check back with us every Monday morning to see all the benefits of your membership.

November PlayStation Plus Preview

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $39.99
An epitaph speaks of another’s demise…A mysterious island known as Bitterblack Isle appears off the coast of Gransys. Its depths have claimed the lives of many Arisen their voices still haunt the labyrinth that lies deep beneath its surface–a labyrinth ripe with secrets waiting to be discovered. The time to take up arms has come once again. Delve into the isle’s depths and uncover its dark secret!

Ibb & obb (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $9.99
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local cooperative couch fun or match up online. Fall up and jump down through 15 levels filled with double gravity puzzles and discover the 8 hidden worlds that will test your new non-Newtonian skills to the maximum.

Resogun (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
RESOGUN is an intense fast-paced shoot em’ up developed exclusively for the PS4 system. Unleash a diverse array of devastating weapons including lasers, missiles, overdrive, and nova-bombs to blast hordes of enemies and rescue the last survivors from distant galactic colonies that are under ruthless attack from an evil alien invasion force.

Contrast (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
Contrast is a 2D/3D puzzle/platformer, set in a 1920’s vaudevillian, film noir dreamscape, full of cabaret, illusion and performance. You play as Dawn, the imaginary friend of a little girl, Didi, and you have the power to shift from the 3D world into a 2D shadowscape, by becoming your shadow. As Didi’s imaginary best friend, you must use your shadow shifting abilities to solve complex puzzles, in order to help Didi investigate the secrets that lie behind her troubled family.

Binary Domain (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99
Created by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind some of SEGA’s most well-known video game franchises including the critically acclaimed Yakuza series, Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast paced and intense battle for humanity in a robot-filled 2080 Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they make. Are the robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like machines?

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $14.99
In the dusty, undeveloped wastelands of Western Mudos, cantankerous townsfolk find their settlements besieged by belligerent outlaws. Along comes Stranger, a tall, dark and enigmatic bounty hunter with a mission to capture troublemakers and scoundrels and return them to civilized townships for incarceration.

Soul Sacrifice (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $35.99
Prepare yourself for a brutal combat experience where every decision made will have consequential results. Take on the role of a slave who is about to be sacrificed stumbles upon a forbidden book that allows its readers to relive battles between sorcerers and monsters of the past. In order to use the magic during fierce battles, the player must be willing to make a sacrifice – ranging from personal belongings, a limb, or even a life.

If you’ve got feedback on PlayStation Plus make sure you take the poll above as well as leave a comment below. To chat about all things PlayStation, including this update, you can head over to the PlayStation Community Forums. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute to, or start your own discussion.

Binary Domain is really fun and I never got to finish it. Reminds me of the Terminator movies and has Co op!
Dragon’s Dogma is another game I’ve yet to taste since it came out with the expansion.
Ibb & Obb looks like some great co op fun and that game just came out!
Oddworld looks like a blast and something I think I’ll enjoy on my Vita.
Soul Sacrifice has a ton of free DLC on the store so I’ll be sure to grab that up and try out the game.

And then there is PS4 games!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait!

Sony please continue to support the PS3 and PS Vita alongside the PS4 this way. I’d hate to see PS+ diminish for the other platforms the longer PS4 is out.

I have not really been excited to play any of the IGC additions in the last few months with the exception of Ico and Shadow of Colossus. It doesn’t help that I don’t have a vita and don’t plan to buy a PS4. But I do have a backlog of about 50 games on Plus to get through.

I have a question on Plus games for Vita as I’m thinking about buying a Vita. If I download a game from the IGC, can I play it when I’m travelling or do I need to be signed in to play it?

Holy mother of God…what a month for PS+! This is the first month in which I will have owned absolutely nothing that’s featured in the IGC update. What’s even better…not a weak pick in the bunch! Way to follow-up on the awesome Kingdom’s of Amalur RPG with another awesome RPG in Dragon’s Dogma. Binary Domain is also a game that received mixed reviews upon it’s release, but I’m psyched to give it a go. Although I’ll need a co-op partner for Ibb & Obb, the art style has always intrigued me, along with the platforming. And then the two AAA games for Vita! Oddworld and Soul Sacrifice in the same month!? ARE YOU F*&%ing kidding me?! I’d have been happy receiving just one of them, but getting them in back to back weeks will be tremendous. For me, this is the best month for the IGC since it’s inception (and I’ve been a PS+ member since the beginning). Keep up the amazing work, PS+ Team!

Hmm.. the last 5 Vita games have been ones I’ve owned.. but that’s mostly my fault cause I couldn’t wait to pick them up. :) Well, have fun with them guys! and here’s hoping the games that are being swapped in for PS Plus cause of Uncharted, GR, and Wipeout being taken off are good ones!

Good to know I’ll be able to have a couple of games for the PS4, sadly I won’t be able to afford the lil’bugger for a long while. This is a great update though, I was hoping we’d see Guacamelee like the uk, but it’s no biggy. Soul Sacrifice will take up my time :D

Good part– I have the physical copy of SS… so I can just stash that on my shelf and carry around a great game.. without having to be burdened to switch cartridges to have to play it.. I love digital. :)

That way, I’ll pretty much have to swap between Killzone and Tales of Hearts. xD

Are you serious? While Europe has AAA games we are getting THIS, and the fault is ours because we are saying that this is a good month. I feel sad because I wanted to have the games that Europe has, when I became a member of Plus i didnt know that US didnt have the same games as Europe. Say what you want, but just look at the games that Europe is offering every month. Nothing left to say but please fix this, we want more AAA games. I think the last one was Hitman Absolution, and its not a great game but its okay i think.

I eek’d like a little kid when I saw IBB & OBB, so freaking excited!!!!!!! truly amazing game! I love it! I love it! &… I LOVE IT!! not to mention that we’re also getting Dragon’s Dogma : Dark Arisen & Binary Domain, awesome update I have to admit, I’m going to have a lot of fun and won’t have any complaints for this month, Thank You <3 and the vita updates look nice even if I don't have one but I shall keep it in my download list if I do want to purchase one in the future.

Thank You Sony!! idk if this is just to get people to get Playstation Plus on PS4 but I will gladly take advantage of the situation, much appreciated :D

Awesome lineup this month! It’s great that we’re getting free PS Plus games for all three of Sony’s consoles this month. Many of these games are underappreciated gems and it’s great that Plus subscribers now have excellent incentive to try these great games out. Thanks Sony!

Dragon’s Dogma? Nice. Now I hope we don’t see it with a huge discount later because I’ll not have the option to buy if I “own” it (Plus)…actually, I’m just going to wait. The PS4 is coming out and this is another feature that the Sony team isn’t fixing.

@Snakeshadow18 – Don’t say “we” want anything! Say “YOU”, because that’s an actual fact. 90% of blog posters are actually excited about this months content. Have you actually been over to the European Blog?! They are freaking out over the fact that we get 3 PS3 games, 2 PS4 games, and 2 Vita games this month, while they get just 4 games, one of which is Motorstorm RC. Sorry bro, but the grass isn’t greener on the other side.

@MatheusRuggeri – Dude…we’ve received a grand total of 2 RPGs in the IGC in 2013 (Demon’s Souls and Kingdom’s of Amalur). What are you talking about!? What other “game types” do you want? The only type I don’t think we receive a lot of is sports/racing

another game type I definitely would want to see is a racing game cause I don’t think we’ve seen much racing and it’d really add to Playstation Plus other than Drive Club coming next year (PSN Plus) edition but for PS3 we definitely would need/want a racing game , just my opinion but this month is … IBB & OBB <3

I came to check the blog and I didn’t expect the November preview today, so this is good news. God, what can I say about the update? It’s really awesome.

As usually, I didn’t have a clue about this month IGC, but I certainly wasn’t expecting Dragon’s Dogma, so that was a nice surprise.

Definitely, this is a kick-ass month (especially if we get to compare it with the previous ones). I think that there is something for everyone. I only own a PS3, and I’m glad with the selection, two AAA games :D

I’m looking forward to this 3 awesome games. Good job with Soul Sacrifice, anyone who owns a PSVita are certainly in for a treat.